A fast paced, entertaining sport in which all the players have to be skilled and have a high endurance. It's one of the hardest sports to play! That makes me even prouder to be a hocey fan.
Unfortunately, this sport is run by an american who could care less if nobody watches the wonderful game in America. (Hockey isn't broadcasted on ESPN?!)
I don't mean to steriotype amercians, because I know many of them love hockey, but it's ridculously sad what the US is doing to this awesome sport!

Canadian: Did you watch the game last night?!?!

American: No...I couldn't.

Canadian: Oh, that's right. You poor thing, you can't watch because hockey doesn't play on ESPN, the biggest sports channel!!

The best sport known to man. Is played mainly on a rink (ice) but can be played on cement with the aid of rolller blades (not as fun though)It is a physically demanding sport which requires endurance, strength, speed, and also you to be smart. It is better then any other sport by far (opioion)If you don't keep your head up you will get clobbered. There are fights but hockey is not a goon sport. Overall it is a sport that requires athletics and is very intertaining to watch.GO HOCKEY!

Bill: "oh hey george, how you doing, did you see that gopher game last night"

George: "Im pretty good, you?...oh i sure did, the Gophers kicked the shit out of the Souix"

Bill: "Yeah im good thanks.... I know it was great....did you hear though, next year the gopher hockey team is gunna be not as good"

George: "Why is that?"

Bill: "Because 3/4 of the team are being drafted into the NHL because they are sooooooooooo good"

George: "Oh....yeah they are all good because they are all from MINNESOTA: THE STATE OF HOCKEY"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Team Canada wins the gold against Team USA with 12 minutes & 20 seconds left in overtime (thanks to the MIRACLE goal scored by Crosby) on Februrary 28th at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Thus Canada has earned 14 gold medals in total (breaking a former record held by the former Soviet Union for 13 gold medals at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics).

Pussies need not apply. Hockey players take catastrophic hits (like in football, except the guy is speeding at you twice as fast on skates), are expected to throw their bodies in front of 130km/h slap shots, regularly have bloody fist fights, and players have been known to break a bone on shift and yet stay on the ice only to score a goal...in other sports (HRM soccer HRM) they get pushed on the grass and they grab their chins in 'agony'. Unlike soccer, matches usually end with more than a single goal and four shots on net, and unlike basketball they don't have a hundred points only to have the game decided by a single one... if every basketball game is going to end 90-89 why not let them play for one minute and decide the winner from that. Hockey is the best mixture of both - its fast enough with enough goals and chances to make it exciting when one happens, and there isn't SO many goals that it becomes a non-event when one happens.

"Ya man, I watched the soccer match... it ended nil-nil and pretty much was them kicking the ball around in the center of the field."

"Yaaaaa well I watched basketball. They scored so many goals that I just stopped caring.

"I watched baseball dude. At least, that was before I slipped into the coma."

"Well I watched FOOOOTBAAAALLL RAWWRRRRRR...Rrrrrrr....rrrr...."

"I watched hockey...it was an exciting game all the way through..with 5 goals in total it made each one exciting and game changing without being so few that it becomes pointless to watch the game instead of the highlights...oh and did you see Crosby beat the shit out of Ovechkin?"